John Updike

John Updike was an American novelist, poet, and literary critic, best known for his Rabbit series and his exploration of American life.

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

John Updike

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

John Updike

"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."

John Updike